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Wagepoint provides small businesses in North America with simple to learn, easy to use online payroll. Employers can access the system from any location, and from any mobile device in order to meet their payroll obligations. Employers also have the option to pay employees in the digital currency bitcoin. The startup just raised $2 million […]

CALGARY - It’s the latest craze in virtual currency and the Bitcoin set down a physical presence on Friday as its first ATM was launched in Calgary. The machine was installed at Waves coffee shop, on 17th Avenue S.W.

When Sarah Yu decided she was done with her white 2006 Volkswagen Jetta with heated leather seats, sunroof and 150,000 kilometres on the odometer, she sized it up and figured it was still worth about 10.Bitcoins, that is.

The Calgary founder of Canada’s first bitcoin exchange says he’s unconcerned by the sudden drop Wednesday in the digital currency’s value. Joseph David, founder of VirtEx — which connects bitcoin buyers and sellers to each other in a secure virtual setting — said the price of the currency was already rebounding Thursday, 24 hours after the San Francisco arrest of the man allegedly behind the online black market Silk Road.